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Foundation / Isaac Asimov.

Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992 (author.). Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992 Foundation. (Added Author).

Summary:

Overview: For twelve thousand years the galactic empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the foundation. But soon the fledgling foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed

Record details

ISBN: 9780808520788
ISBN: 0808520784
ISBN: 9780553293357
ISBN: 0553293354
ISBN: 9780553803716
ISBN: 0553803719
Physical Description: 296 pages ; 18 cm.
Publisher: New York, New York : Bantam Books, 2004, ©1951.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Bantam Spectra book"--Title page verso. Mass market reissue published in New York by Bantam Books in 2004.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1: Psycho-historians -- Part 2: Encyclopedists -- Part 3: Mayors -- Part 4: Traders -- Part 5: Merchant Princes.